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Farscape s03e09: Losing Time

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1. Series: Farscape
2. Season: 3
3. Episode: 9
4. Title: Losing Time
5. Director: Catherine Millar (per Wikipedia contributors)
6. Writer: Justin Monjo (per Wikipedia contributors)
7. Original air date: 29 June 2001 (United States)
8. Publisher of online copy: Farscape (official YouTube channel)
9. Running time: 44 minutes 15 seconds
10. Plot
11. According to YouTube automatic captions, after Moya passes through the cluster, Crichton suffers a bleeding episode with no visible wound, and the crew find that roughly half an hour has passed with none of them able to account for it.
12. According to YouTube automatic captions, a being speaks through Pilot, identifying itself as an energy rider and claiming that a diseased rider of its kind has escaped onto Moya and taken up residence inside one of the crew.
13. The being inside Pilot asks to taste each crew member in turn so it can tell which one harbors the diseased rider.
14. Memorable quotes
15. I am bleeding and I have no wounds. So, I'm either St. John of the Uncharted Territories or there's something very, very wrong with me.
16. I thought you couldn't stay in pilot. Never knew it could be like this. So good. The writer was right. It is perfect to stay too long. Perfect.
17. We get the demon out. We kill it and pilot lives. So that the only plan we got? That's it.
18. You bled cuz you're an irritating and inferior species.
19. In the episode
20. Crichton records a warning message Alone on the ship, Crichton speaks into a recorder, addressing his friends on Earth about the dangers he has encountered and his dilemma over whether to reveal his location.
21. Crichton bleeds without a wound After a flash of light passes through the ship, Crichton approaches the others, insisting he has bled despite having no visible injury, and tries to show them the evidence.
22. Strange phenomena strike the ship Crichton tells the crew his symptoms must be linked to the cluster, while temperature and humidity disturbances begin affecting the living ship and its pilot.
23. The crew realizes they lost time Crichton and the others discover that roughly half an hour has vanished from their memories, with no explanation from the ship's systems or the pilot.
24. An alien speaks through Pilot Pilot suddenly addresses the crew in a different voice, announcing it has entered his body and demanding to inspect each of them to find a diseased rider that came aboard.
25. The crew plays a personal trivia game Following the alien's instructions, the crew takes turns sharing deeply personal details about their pasts, hoping the creature in one of them will fail to match the true facts.
26. Chiana is exposed as infected The alien finishes tasting Jool and then moves on to Chiana, who reacts violently as it confirms the diseased rider is inside her.
27. Crichton confronts Chiana Crichton locates Chiana in the Starburst chamber, where she now speaks as the rider, begging him to keep her secret before any of the others can find her.
28. Scorpius learns of the Scarran threat In a separate location, a Peacekeeper commander briefs Scorpius on intelligence suggesting the Scarrans are amassing forces, motivated by the lie of hidden wormhole weapons.
29. The alien hijacks the ship When the crew confronts the entity inside Chiana, it suddenly flees into the ship's pilot, takes full control of the vessel, and announces it intends to stay.
30. A plan forms to purge the alien Crichton consults with the ship, then briefs the crew on a risky scheme to redirect Starburst energy into Pilot's den to burn the rider out of him.
31. The alien realizes Pilot is dying The rider discovers it has damaged Pilot beyond recovery and decides to transfer itself into the living ship Moya, abandoning the human body.
32. The rider is expelled from Moya Chiana races out of the Starburst chamber just as Crichton triggers the override, and a blast of energy ejects the rider from the ship's neural system.
33. Background
34. According to Wikipedia contributors, an episode list credits the direction of "Losing Time" to Catherine Millar and the writing to Justin Monjo.
35. The same episode list records that the episode first aired in the United States on 29 June 2001.
36. According to YouTube (Farscape), Farscape was created by Rockne S. O'Bannon and is produced by The Jim Henson Company, with Ben Browder starring as astronaut John Crichton.
37. The full episode was published on YouTube on 24 May 2025 by the official Farscape channel, and that upload runs for 2,655 seconds.
38. In the series
39. "Losing Time" is the ninth episode of the third season of Farscape.
40. The episode is watchable here because the rights holder published it on its own YouTube channel.

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